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{{Style P-No indent|There was a time when even the Haeckelian Moneron — that simple globule of Protoplasm — had not yet appeared at the bottom of the seas. Whence came the ''Impulse ''which caused the molecules of Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, etc., to group themselves into the ''Urschleim ''of Oken, that organic “ slime,” now christened protoplasm. What were the prototypes of the Monera ? They, at least, could not have fallen in meteorites from other globes already formed, Sir W. Thomson’s wild theory to this effect, notwithstanding. And if ''they have ''so fallen ; if our Earth got its supply of life-germs from other planets ; who, or ''what'', had carried them into those planets ? Here, again, unless the Occult teaching is accepted, we are compelled once more to face a ''miracle ; ''to accept the theory of a ''personal'', ''anthropomorphic Creator'', the attributes and definitions of whom, as formulated by the Monotheists, clash as much with philosophy and logic, as they degrade the ideal of an infinite Universal deity, before whose incomprehensible awful grandeur the highest human intellect feels dwarfed. Let not the modern philosopher, while arbitrarily placing himself on the highest pinnacle of human intellectuality hitherto evolved, show himself spiritually and intuitionally so far below the conceptions of even the ancient Greeks, themselves on a far lower level, in these respects, than the philosophers of Eastern Aryan antiquity. Hylozoism, when philosophically understood, is the highest aspect of Pantheism. It is the only possible escape from idiotic atheism based on lethal materiality, and the still more idiotic anthropomorphic conceptions of the monotheists ; between which two it stands on its own entirely neutral ground. Hylozoism ''demands ''absolute Divine Thought, which would ''pervade ''the numberless active, creating Forces, or “ Creators ” ; which ''entities ''are moved by, and have their being in, from, and through that Divine Thought ; the latter, nevertheless, having no more personal concern in them or ''their ''creations, than the Sun has in the sun-flower and its seeds, or in vegetation in general. Such active “ Creators ” are known to exist and are believed in, because perceived and sensed by the ''inner ''man in the Occultist. Thus the latter says that an absolute Deity, having to be unconditioned and unrelated, cannot be thought of at the same time as an active, creating, one living god, without immediate degradation of the ideal. * A Deity that manifests in ''Space ''and ''Time'' — these two being simply the forms of {{Style S-Small capitals|that}} which is the Absolute all — can be but a fractional part of the}}